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Royal Santana
BreedQuarter Horse
DisciplineCutting
SirePeppy San
GrandsireLeo San
DamRoyal Smart
Maternal grandsireRoyal King
SexGelding
Foaled1971
CountryUnited States
ColorSorrel
Other awards
NCHA Platinum & Gold & Silver & Bronze Awards, NCHA Certificate of Ability, AQHA World Champion
Honors
American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame
Last updated on: January 12, 2008.

Royal Santana was a 1971 sorrel Quarter Horse gelding sired by Peppy San and out of a mare named Royal Smart. Royal Smart was a daughter of Royal King and out of a descendant of Traveler named Moss Jackie Tobin.[1]

In Royal Santana's show career he was an American Quarter Horse Association (or AQHA) World Champion and Reserve World Champion.[2] With the National Cutting Horse Association (or NCHA) he earned $174,146.29 in cutting contests and a Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Certificate of Ability from the NCHA.[3]

Royal Santana was inducted into the AQHA Hall of Fame[4] in 2000. After he died in 1995, they buried him next to the arena named in his honor at Merrill’s Windward Stud.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ All Breed Pedigree Database Pedigree of Royal Santana accessed on October 6, 2007
  2. ^ Royal Santana at Quarter Horse Directory accessed on October 6, 2007
  3. ^ NCHA Earnings Lookup Archived September 5, 2017, at the Wayback Machine accessed on October 6, 2007
  4. ^ American Quarter Horse Foundation. "Hall of Fame Inductees". AQHA Hall of Fame. American Quarter Horse Association. Retrieved September 2, 2017.
  5. ^ American Quarter Horse Association (AQHA). "Royal Santana". AQHA Hall of Fame. American Quarter Horse Association. Retrieved September 2, 2017.

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